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Strong's G3551 νόμος (nomos)

Nomos means “law” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H3551 — kav (“window”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G3551
Language Greek
Linked Usages 554
Books 53

Strong's G3551 Quick Answer

Strong's G3551 νόμος (nomos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. nomos (nom'-os) n. 1. law (through the idea of prescriptive usage) 2. (genitive case) regulation It has 554 linked Bible usages across 53 books. Visible English usage signals include law, lord, god, according, and moses. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
nomos (nom'-os) n. 1. law (through the idea of prescriptive usage) 2. (genitive case) regulation
Usage
554 linked usages
Books
53 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
law, lord, god, according, and moses

Meaning and Definition

nomos (nom'-os) n. 1. law (through the idea of prescriptive usage) 2. (genitive case) regulation 3. (specially) of Moses (including the volume), also of the Gospel 4. (figuratively) a principle [from a primary nemo "to parcel out" (especially food or grazing to animals)] KJV: law

Original Word
νόμος
Transliteration
nomos
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3551. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

law

Usage: νόμος, -ου, ὁ (νέμω, to deal out, distribute), [in LXX chiefly for תּוֹרָה, also for חֻקָּה, etc. ;] that which is assigned, hence, usage, custom, then law; in NT (only in Mt, Jo, Ja, and the Lucan and Pauline bks.); __1. of law in general: Rom.3:27 5:13b; pl., of divine laws, Heb.8:10 10:16; ὁ ν. τ. Χριστοῦ, Gal.6:2; (τ.) ἐλευθερίας, Jas.1:25 2:12; βασιλικιός (Hort., in l.; Deiss., LAE, 267:3), Jas.2:8. __2. Of a force or influence impelling to action: Rom.7:21, 23a, 25 8:2. __3.

Of the Mosaic law: Mat.5:18, Luk.2:27, Jhn.1:17, Act.6:13, Rom.2:15, 1Co.9:8, 1Ti.1:8, Heb.7:19; al.; Μωυσέως, Luk.2:22, Jhn.7:23, Act.15:5, al.; κυρίου, Luk.2:39; κατὰ τὸν ν., Act.22:12, Heb.7:5 9:22. __4. As printed, Abbott-Smith mistakenly numbers this as 3.Anarthrous (Bl, §46, 8; ICC on Rom.2:12, 13), νόμος, __(a) of law in general: Rom.2:12, 14b 3:20, 21 4:15, al.; __(b) of the Mosaic law in its quality as law: Rom.2:14a 5:20 10:4, Gal.2:19, al.; οἱ ἐκ ν., Rom.4:14; ὑπὸ νόμον, 1Co.9:20, Gal.4:5; ν.

πράσσειν (πληροῦν), Rom.2:25 13:8. __5. Of Christian teaching: ν. πίστεως, Rom.3:27; τ. Χριστοῦ, Gal.6:2. __6. By meton., of the books which contain the law; __(a) of the Pentateuch: Mat.12:5, Jhn.1:45, al.; ὁ ν. καὶ οἱ προφῆται, Mat.5:17, Luk.16:16, al.; ὁ ν. καὶ προφῆται κ. ψαλμοί, Luk.24:44. __(b) of the OT Scriptures in general (as Heb. תּוֹרָה): Jhn.10:34 12:34 15:25, 1Co.14:21, al. (AS)

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English Usage Signals

Frequent English words from the visible usage excerpts. These are not a replacement for the original-language definition, but they make the usage pattern easier to scan.

law lord god according moses israel book before day thee written shalt

How Strong's G3551 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 228 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G3551 (νόμος) appears 411 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

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Strong's G3551 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G3551 in the New Testament

158 indexed usages in New Testament.

Strong's G3551 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

228 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Exodus 12:43 Septuagint / Brenton

And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, This is the law of the Passover: no stranger shall eat of it.

Exodus 12:49 Septuagint / Brenton

There shall be one law to the native, and to the proselyte coming among you.

Exodus 13:9 Septuagint / Brenton

And it shall be to thee a sign upon thy hand and a memorial before thine eyes, that the law of the Lord may be in thy mouth, for with a strong hand the Lord God brought thee out of Egypt.

Strong's G3551 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

168 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Usage Excerpts

First 120 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3551.

Exodus 12:43 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, This is the law of the Passover: no stranger shall eat of it.
Exodus 12:49 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
There shall be one law to the native, and to the proselyte coming among you.
Exodus 13:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it shall be to thee a sign upon thy hand and a memorial before thine eyes, that the law of the Lord may be in thy mouth, for with a strong hand the Lord God brought thee out of Egypt.
Exodus 13:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And preserve ye this law according to the times of the seasons, from year to year.
Exodus 16:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord said to Moses, Behold, I will rain bread upon you out of heaven: and the people shall go forth, and they shall gather their daily portion for the day, that I may try them whether they will walk in my law or not.
Exodus 16:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord said to Moses, How long are ye unwilling to hearken to my commands and my law?
Exodus 18:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For whenever there is a dispute among them, and they come to me, I give judgment upon each, and I teach them the ordinances of God and his law.
Exodus 18:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt testify to them the ordinances of God and his law, and thou shalt show to them the ways in which they shall walk, and the works which they shall do.
Exodus 24:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord said to Moses, Come up to me into the mountain, and be there; and I will give thee the tables of stone, the law and the commandments, which I have written to give them laws.
Leviticus 6:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Charge Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of whole burnt offering; this is the whole burnt offering in its burning on the altar all the night till the morning; and the fire of the altar shall burn on it, it shall not be put out.
Leviticus 6:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
This is the law of the sacrifice, which the sons of Aaron shall bring near before the Lord, before the altar.
Leviticus 6:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The anointed priest who is in his place, one of his sons, shall offer it: it is a perpetual statute, it shall all be consumed.
Leviticus 6:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin offering—in the place where they slay the whole burnt offering, they shall slay the sin offerings before the Lord: they are most holy.
Leviticus 7:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And this is the law of the ram for the trespass offering; it is most holy.
Leviticus 7:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
As the sin offering, so also is the trespass offering. There is one law of them; the priest who shall make atonement with it, his it shall be.
Leviticus 7:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
This is the law of the sacrifice of peace offering, which they shall bring to the Lord.
Leviticus 7:37 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
This is the law of the whole burnt offerings, and of sacrifice, and of sin offering, and of offering for transgression, and of the sacrifice of consecration, and of the sacrifice of peace offering;
Leviticus 11:46 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
This is the law concerning beasts and birds and every living creature moving in the water, and every living creature creeping on the earth;
Leviticus 12:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he shall present it before the Lord, and the priest shall make atonement for her, and shall purge her from the fountain of her blood; this is the law of her who bears a male or a female.
Leviticus 13:59 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
This is the law of the plague of leprosy of a woolen or linen garment, either of the warp, or woof, or any leathern article, to pronounce it clean or unclean.
Leviticus 14:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
This is the law of the leper: in whatsoever day he shall have been cleansed, then shall he be brought to the priest.
Leviticus 14:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
This is the law for him in whom is the plague of leprosy, and who cannot afford the offerings for his purification.
Leviticus 14:54 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
This is the law concerning every plague of leprosy and scurf,
Leviticus 14:57 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and of declaring in what day it is unclean, and in what day it shall be purged: this is the law of the leprosy.
Leviticus 15:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And this is the law of his uncleanness; whoever has a gonorrhea out of his body, this is his uncleanness in him by reason of the issue, by which his body is affected through the issue: all the days of the issue of his body, by which his body is affected through the issue, there is his uncleanness.
Leviticus 15:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
This is the law of the man who has an issue, and if one discharge seed of copulation, so that he should be polluted by it.
Leviticus 19:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Ye shall observe my law: thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with one of a different kind, and thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with diverse seed; and thou shalt not put upon thyself a mingled garment woven of two materials.
Leviticus 19:37 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And ye shall keep all my law and all my ordinances, and ye shall do them: I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 26:46 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
These are my judgments and my ordinances, and the law which the Lord gave between himself and the children of Israel, in the Mount Sinai, by the hand of Moses.
Numbers 5:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
This is the law of jealousy, wherein a married woman should happen to transgress, and be defiled;
Numbers 5:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
or in the case of a man on whomsoever the spirit of jealousy should come, and he should be jealous of his wife, and he should place his wife before the Lord, and the priest shall execute toward her all this law.
Numbers 6:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And this is the law of him that has vowed: in whatever day he shall have fulfilled the days of his vow, he shall himself bring his gift to the doors of the tabernacle of witness.
Numbers 6:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
This is the law of the votary who shall have vowed to the Lord his gift to the Lord, concerning his vow, besides what he may be able to afford according to the value of his vow, which he may have vowed according to the law of separation.
Numbers 9:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
On the fourteenth day of the first month at even, thou shalt keep it in its season; thou shalt keep it according to its law, and according to its ordinance.
Numbers 9:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They shall not leave of it until the morrow, and they shall not break a bone of it; they shall sacrifice it according to the ordinance of the Passover.
Numbers 9:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if there should come to you a stranger in your land, and should keep the Passover to the Lord, he shall keep it according to the law of the Passover and according to its ordinance: there shall be one law for you, both for the stranger, and for the native of the land.
Numbers 15:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
There shall be one law for you and for the strangers abiding among you, a perpetual law for your generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger be before the Lord.
Numbers 15:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
There shall be one law and one ordinance for you, and for the stranger that abides among you.
Numbers 15:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
There shall be one law for the native among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that abides among them, whosoever shall commit a trespass unwillingly.
Numbers 19:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
This is the constitution of the law, as the Lord has commanded, saying, Speak to the sons of Israel, and let them take for thee a red heifer without spot, which has no spot on her, and on which no yoke has been put.
Numbers 19:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And this is the law; if a man die in a house, everyone that goes into the house, and all things in the house, shall be unclean seven days.
Numbers 31:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Eleazar the priest said to the men of the host that came from the battle array, This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord has commanded Moses.
Deuteronomy 1:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
beyond Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses began to declare this law, saying,
Deuteronomy 4:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And what manner of nation is so great, which has righteous ordinances and judgments according to all this law, which I set before you this day?
Deuteronomy 4:44 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 17:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou shalt do according to the law and to the judgment which they shall declare to thee: thou shalt not swerve to the right hand or to the left from any sentence which they shall report to thee.
Deuteronomy 24:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Take heed to thyself in regard of the plague of leprosy: thou shalt take great heed to do according to all the law, which the priests the Levites shall report to you; take heed to do, as I have charged you.
Deuteronomy 27:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt write on these stones all the words of this law, as soon as ye have crossed Jordan, when ye are entered into the land, which the Lord God of thy fathers gives thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, according as the Lord God of thy fathers said to thee.
Deuteronomy 27:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt write upon the stones all this law very plainly.
Deuteronomy 27:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Cursed is every man that continues not in all the words of this law to do them: and all the people shall say, So be it.
Deuteronomy 28:58 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
If thou wilt not hearken to do all the words of this law, which have been written in this book, to fear this glorious and wonderful name, the Lord thy God;
Deuteronomy 28:61 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord shall bring upon thee every sickness, and every plague that is not written, and every one that is written in the book of this law, until he shall have destroyed thee.
Deuteronomy 29:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it shall be if one shall hear the words of this curse, and shall flatter himself in his heart, saying, Let good happen to me, for I will walk in the error of my heart, lest the sinner destroy the guiltless with him:
Deuteronomy 29:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
God shall by no means be willing to pardon him, but then the wrath of the Lord and his jealousy shall flame out against that man; and all the curses of this covenant shall attach themselves to him, which are written in this book, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven.
Deuteronomy 29:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and they went and served other gods, which they knew not, neither did he assign them to them.
Deuteronomy 29:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord removed them from their land in anger, and wrath, and very great indignation, and cast them out into another land as at present.
Deuteronomy 30:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
if thou wilt hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments, and his ordinances, and his judgments written in the book of this law, if thou turn to the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.
Deuteronomy 31:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Moses wrote the words of this law in a book, and gave it to the priests the sons of Levi who bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to the elders of the sons of Israel.
Deuteronomy 31:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
when all Israel come together to appear before the Lord your God, in the place which the Lord shall choose, ye shall read this law before all Israel in their ears,
Deuteronomy 31:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
having assembled the people, the men, and the women, and the children, and the stranger that is in your cities, that they may hear, and that they may learn to fear the Lord your God; and they shall hearken to do all the words of this law.
Deuteronomy 31:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And when Moses finished writing all the words of this law in a book, even to the end,
Deuteronomy 31:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Take the book of this law, and ye shall put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God; and it shall be there among you for a testimony.
Deuteronomy 32:44 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Moses wrote this song in that day, and taught it to the children of Israel; and Moses went in and spoke all the words of this law in the ears of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun.
Deuteronomy 32:46 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he said to them, Take heed with your heart to all these words, which I testify to you this day, which ye shall command your sons, to observe and do all the words of this law.
Deuteronomy 33:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The law which Moses charged us, An inheritance to the assemblies of Jacob.
Deuteronomy 33:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They shall declare thine ordinances to Jacob, And thy law to Israel: They shall place incense in the time of thy wrath Continually upon thine altar.
Joshua 1:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the book of this law shall not depart out of thy mouth, and thou shalt meditate in it day and night, that thou mayest know how to do all the things that are written in it; then shalt thou prosper, and make thy ways prosperous, and then shalt thou be wise.
Joshua 22:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But take great heed to do the commands and the law, which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you to do; to love the Lord our God, to walk in all his ways, to keep his commands, and to cleave to him, and serve him with all your mind, and with all your soul.
Joshua 23:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Do ye therefore strive diligently to observe and do all things written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not to the right hand or to the left;
Joshua 24:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
So Joshua made a covenant with the people on that day, and gave them a law and an ordinance in Shiloh before the tabernacle of the God of Israel.
Joshua 24:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he wrote these words in the book of the laws of God: and Joshua took a great stone, and set it up under the oak before the Lord.
2 Kingdoms 7:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Whereas I was very little before thee, O Lord, my Lord, yet thou spokest concerning the house of thy servant for a long time to come. And is this the law of man, O Lord, my Lord?
3 Kingdoms 2:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and keep the charge of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep the commandments and the ordinances and the judgments which are written in the law of Moses; that thou mayest understand what thou shalt do in all things that I command thee:
4 Kingdoms 10:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the Lord God of Israel with all his heart: he departed not from following the sins of Jeroboam, who made Israel to sin.
4 Kingdoms 14:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But he slew not the sons of those that had slain him; according as it is written in the book of the laws of Moses, as the Lord gave commandment, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, and the children shall not be put to death for the fathers; but every one shall die for his own sins.
4 Kingdoms 17:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord testified against Israel and against Judah, even by the hand of all his prophets, and of every seer, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my ordinances, and all the law which I commanded your fathers, and all that I sent to them by the hand of my servants the prophets.
4 Kingdoms 17:34 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Until this day they did according to their manner: they fear the Lord, and they do according to their customs, and according to their manner, and according to the law, and according to the commandment which the Lord commanded the sons of Jacob, whose name he made Israel.
4 Kingdoms 17:37 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Ye shall observe continually the ordinances, and the judgments, and the law, and the commandments which he wrote for you to do; and ye shall not fear other gods.
4 Kingdoms 22:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.
4 Kingdoms 22:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his garments.
4 Kingdoms 23:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Moreover Josiah removed the sorcerers, and the wizards, and the teraphim, and the idols, and all the abominations that had been set up in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might keep the words of the law that were written in the book, which Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the Lord.
4 Kingdoms 23:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
There was no king like him before him, who turned to the Lord with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his strength, according to all the law of Moses; and after him there rose not one like him.
1 Chronicles 16:40 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
to offer up whole burnt offerings to the Lord on the altar of whole burnt offerings continually morning and evening, and according to all things written in the law of the Lord, which he commanded the children of Israel by Moses the servant of God.
1 Chronicles 22:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Only may the Lord give thee wisdom and prudence, and strengthen thee over Israel, both to keep and to do the law of the Lord thy God.
2 Chronicles 6:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And now, Lord God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father the things which thou spokest to him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man before me sitting on the throne of Israel, if only thy sons will take heed to their way to walk in my law, as thou didst walk before me.
2 Chronicles 14:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and he told Judah to seek earnestly the Lord God of their fathers, and to perform the law and the commandments.
2 Chronicles 15:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Israel has been a long time without the true God, and without a priest to expound the truth, and without the law.
2 Chronicles 17:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they taught in Judah, and there was with them the book of the law of the Lord, and they passed through the cities of Judah, and taught the people.
2 Chronicles 23:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Jehoiada the priest committed the works of the house of the Lord into the hand of the priests and Levites, and he re-established the courses of the priests and Levites which David appointed over the house of the Lord, and he appointed them to offer whole burnt offerings to the Lord, as it is written in the law of Moses, with gladness, and with songs by the hand of David.
2 Chronicles 25:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But he slew not their sons, according to the covenant of the law of the Lord, as it is written, and as the Lord commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, and the sons shall not die for the fathers, but they shall die each for his own sin.
2 Chronicles 31:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the king’s proportion out of his substance was appointed for the whole burnt offerings, the morning and the evening one, and the whole burnt offerings for the Sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the feasts that were ordered in the law of the Lord.
2 Chronicles 31:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And in every work which he began in service in the house of the Lord, and in the law, and in the ordinances, he sought his God with all his soul, and wrought, and prospered.
2 Chronicles 33:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and I will not again remove the foot of Israel from the land which I gave to their fathers, if only they will take heed to do all things which I have commanded them, according to all the law and the ordinances and the judgments given by the hand of Moses.
2 Chronicles 34:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And when they brought forth the money that had been brought into the house of the Lord, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of the Lord given by the hand of Moses.
2 Chronicles 34:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found a book of the law in the house of the Lord. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan.
2 Chronicles 34:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the law, that he rent his garments.
2 Chronicles 35:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his goodness, according to that which was written in the law of the LORD,
Ezra 3:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and builded the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings thereon, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.
Ezra 7:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him.
Ezra 7:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.
Ezra 7:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Artaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, a scribe of the law of the God of heaven, perfect peace, and at such a time.
Ezra 7:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Forasmuch as thou art sent of the king, and of his seven counsellors, to enquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of thy God which is in thine hand;
Ezra 7:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers which are beyond the river, that whatsoever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of you, it be done speedily,
Ezra 7:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, that is in thine hand, set magistrates and judges, which may judge all the people that are beyond the river, all such as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye them that know them not.
Ezra 7:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.
Ezra 10:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.
Nehemiah 8:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel.
Nehemiah 8:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month.
Nehemiah 8:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law.
Nehemiah 8:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people stood in their place.
Nehemiah 8:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.
Nehemiah 8:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.
Nehemiah 8:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And on the second day were gathered together the chief of the fathers of all the people, the priests, and the Levites, unto Ezra the scribe, even to understand the words of the law.
Nehemiah 8:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they found written in the law which the LORD had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month:
Nehemiah 8:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Also day by day, from the first day unto the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according unto the manner.
Nehemiah 9:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the LORD their God one fourth part of the day; and another fourth part they confessed, and worshipped the LORD their God.
Nehemiah 9:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:
Nehemiah 9:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant:
Nehemiah 9:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
Nehemiah 9:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3551, grouped by book.

Exodus 9 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Leviticus 20 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 13 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 24 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joshua 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
3 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 9 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Chronicles 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 13 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezra 9 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Nehemiah 20 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Esther 8 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 37 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 11 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 13 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 11 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Lamentations 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Daniel 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Hosea 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Amos 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Micah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Habakkuk 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Zephaniah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Haggai 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Zechariah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Malachi 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 8 usages, New Testament
Luke 9 usages, New Testament
John 13 usages, New Testament
Acts 19 usages, New Testament
Romans 51 usages, New Testament
1 Corinthians 7 usages, New Testament
Galatians 25 usages, New Testament
Ephesians 1 usage, New Testament
Philippians 3 usages, New Testament
1 Timothy 2 usages, New Testament
Hebrews 13 usages, New Testament
James 7 usages, New Testament
1 Esdras 21 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Judith 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Tobit 3 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Maccabees 28 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
2 Maccabees 27 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
3 Maccabees 8 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
4 Maccabees 37 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Solomon 9 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 26 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Baruch 4 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Daniel 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Book 151 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G3551 FAQ

What does nomos (νόμος) mean?

Nomos (Strong's G3551) is a Greek word most simply glossed "law". nomos (nom'-os) n. 1. law (through the idea of prescriptive usage) 2. (genitive case) regulation

How many times is nomos (νόμος) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 554 linked usages for Strong's G3551 across 53 books.

Where can I study nomos (νόμος) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3551 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate nomos (νόμος)?

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Does Strong's G3551 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 228 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 168 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3551, with linked reader references where each row is available.